With our 7th issue, we began the practice of asking a contributor from a past issue of TLR to join us as a guest assistant poetry editor. Michael Schmeltzer started things off in issue 7 (we can’t wait to show you what we’ve selected together when the issue releases this summer), and with issue 8, we’re excited to welcome Brandon Amico to the table. This week, we’ve asked Brandon to introduce himself to you, our wonderful readers. -KD

Kelly Davio, who was kind enough to ask me to join the Tahoma Literary Review as the guest poetry editor for their eighth issue, asked me to write an introduction for the blog so that readers (and future submitters) can get a sense of who I am and what I’m looking for, as an editor, in the poems that make their way onto my desk(top). As someone who likes to write long-windedly, in reaching, comma-ed…